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...night, Glatman was picked up last October. His arrest was accidental; a 28-year-old model, lured like earlier victims by Glatman's pose-for-pay pitch, struggled free when he attacked her in a car off the Santa Ana Freeway, held him at bay with his own pistol until a state highway patrolman appeared. To police, the pint-sized ex-convict glibly announced he had strangled three other women, led police to the decomposed bodies of two of them on a sun-bleached strip of desert southeast of Los Angeles. He volunteered the 22 pictures, explained proudly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Proper Punishment | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...legend. It is-to many Americans-unsanitary and exotic, the place where Aunt Clara got dysentery and watched dark-skinned boys dive 165 ft. into a surging wave at Acapulco. It is violent: the plump señora in the cartoon scolds her sombreroed husband as he cleans his pistol, saying "Oh, Pablo, you're not going back into politics!" In the cities it has modern hotels, traffic jams, skyscrapers and ocherous murals; in the country drowsy peons in scrapes prop the walls of moldering churches in quaint colonial villages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Paycheck Revolution | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

Death can be small and cold. It can be a hard black pistol. Or it can be huge and hot; it can be half a ton of giant lumbering animal. Manolete knew death as the animal. A rush of black hide and ripping white horn blurring past an inch from the ankle. A bullfighter is significant because in his important moments he fights and defeats the animal; the animal means death, and in the final important moment the animal must kill...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: The Death of Manolete | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

Shredded Feat. In Metropolis, Ill., Carl Bock, 19, held up Fitch's Dime Store, got away with a bag full of cash, was fleeing through a parking lot when his pistol fired into the bag, scattering money in all directions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 1, 1958 | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...found out what it is like to be a vagrant, a prostitute, a gambler's shill, a convicted perjurer who has already served a total of three years in prison. At 30, according to California's public prosecutor, she finds out about murder-by pistol-whipping an old woman to death in the course of an unsuccessful robbery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

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